CD PROJEKT RED Bring Esports to Gwent with Gwent Masters

CD PROJEKT RED has made official its plans for the first season of professional Gwent competition.

Gwent Masters will be a year-long tournament series debuting this month in Cologne.

Gwent Masters will be a year-long tournament series debuting this month in Cologne. The series will run four “Challenger” events in 2018, leading to a World Masters tournament in January 2019.

Open tournaments will feature $25,000 prize pools, Challenger events will be contested for $100,000, and the climactic World Masters championship will provide a $250,000 prize pool. All events will be held at various locations around the world, including the United States, China, and Poland, where developer CD PROJEKT RED is based.

Third-party tournament organizers will also be able to hold officially-sanctioned Gwent tournaments with ranking points available. These third-party events will have a minimum of $10,000 in prizes and are required to provide open qualification through a swiss elimination format. Community-run tournaments need not apply for licensing, but cannot have prize pools in excess of $10,000 and will carry no official ranking points.

Players will be encouraged to mix up their decks while ranking up online.

The “crown” points will be used to determine the eight qualifying spots for most official tournaments, and can be won through placement at tournaments and from successful play on the pro ladder, which will be fully separate from normal ranked play in Gwent.

Unlike in a game like Hearthstone, players will be encouraged to mix up their decks while ranking up online, as a player’s standing will be determined by averaging the rating of their four best unique decks. Players will also be required to bring four unique decks with them to live events, which will be restricted to only eight players.

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